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Defeater are streaming “Rabbit Foot,” the second single from their third studio album, Letters Home. The continued concept of a working class family living in post-WWII America will be out on July 16 via Bridge Nine Records. The band will be supporting it on the Vans Warped Tour from July 11 to August 4. All pre-orders […]

Defeater have announced plans to release a new song this week. The band's upcoming album, Letters Home, is due out on July 16 via Bridge Nine Records. Pre-orders are available now. Fans can catch the band on the Vans Warped Tour from July 12 – August 4. Tickets are on sale now. New song this […]

Defeater have announced details of their third full-length album, Letters Home, which will see a July 16 release on Bridge Nine Records. Continuing their concept series, the effort “revolves around the father of two brothers that listeners were introduced to in two of Defeater's prior releases (Travels and most recently Empty Days & Sleepless Nights), […]

Defeater will release their third full-length, Letters Home, on July 16 via Bridge Nine Records. The ten-track album continues to tell the story of a working class family living in post-WWII America, and revolves around the father of two brothers listeners were introduced to in 2011's Empty Days & Sleepless Nights and 2008's Travels. Letters Home gives background […]

Foreign Tongues Glue EP How exactly does a relatively new band from Boston/New Hampshire turn out sounding like they could have shared a stage with Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr. during the heyday of grunge and alt-rock? That’s the question that might have to remain unanswered when listening to Foreign Tongues' new EP, Glue [released on […]

Defeater have announced a short four-date run with My Fictions (Topshelf Records) appearing on all shows. The band continues to support 2011's Empty Days & Sleepless Nights, released on Bridge Nine Records. April 4th Oneonta, NY @ Hunt Ballroom (SUNY) w/ Casting Curses, My Fictions April 5th Huntington, NY @ 89 North (Mixtape Fest) w/ […]

Vans Warped Tour have announced the following additions to the 2013 festival's lineup: The Summer Set, Defeater, Goldfinger, Stephan Jacobs, Outasight, For The Foxes and New Years Day.  Tickets are now available for purchase at Warped Tour's website. You can find the other lineup announcements in the related stories below!

Defeater's Live On BBC Radio 1 is out now, available for digital purchase from Bridge Nine Records and streaming on Spotify. Vinyl will be released Jan. 15. Guitarist Jay Maas commented on the recording session: “On every level imaginable, this experience was a dream come true for me. Every band from The Cure, and The […]

Defeater frontman Derek Archambault has announced details for his solo project, Alcoa. Bridge Nine Records will release the debut album, Bone & Marrow, in all formats on Feb. 26. It will feature eleven songs and has “…a few tracks I've been fucking around with for the past few years, along with new stuff written specifically for this record.  I […]

Defeater have announced release details for Live On BBC Radio 1. Bridge Nine Records will release the session both digitally and on vinyl. “On every level imaginable, this experience was a dream come true for me. Every band from The Cure, and The Smiths to Hot Snakes, and American Nightmare has been recorded behind those […]

Defeater have announced a fall tour in Australia in September with Blacklisted. Check out the dates and poster below.  9/26 – Enigma Bar, Adelaide Lic 9/27 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne 9/28 – TLC Bayswater, Melbourne 9/29 – Annandale Hotel, Sydney 9/30 – Annadale Hotel, Sydney 10/1 – Mt Gravatt PCYC, Brisbane 10/2 – YAC, Byron […]

Defeater vocalist Derek Archambault will be releasing a new full-length with his Alcoa side-project; the eleven-track album, influenced by “artists like Gram Parsons, Elliot Smith, Johnny Cash, Rocky Votolato, and Ryan Adams” according to the press release, will be out later this year. A few recent demos can be heard below.

Touche Amore, Defeater, Code Orange Kids and Birds In Row will be touring together this spring. Check out the dates below. April 17  Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon April 18  Manchester, NH @ Rockos April 19  Amityville, NY @ Ollie's Point April 20  New Brunswick, NJ @ The Loft April 21  Harrisonburg, VA @ Downtown34 […]

Defeater has unveiled a new video for “Empty Glass,” a track from their latest full-length Empty Days & Sleepless Nights. Check it out below.

Defeater has been confirmed as support for Every Time I Die's UK tour, along with one more opener to be announced.

Defeater Empty Days & Sleepless Nights Hardcore punk might be the least accommodating subgenre for ongoing storylines. Bands of this style rarely last beyond a first LP, if they even make it that far. Setting up a thematic arc that digs further than a first recording session or two? Forget about it. Perhaps that's why […]

Check out this exclusive stream of “Dear Father” off Defeater's new album, Empty Days & Sleepless Nights, out March 8 on Bridge 9 Records.  Pre-order packages for the record are currently available here.